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6. Emydura latisternum. 
Elseya latisternum, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (4) xx. p. 44 (1867)s 
and Suppl. Cat. Sh. Rept.i. p. 77 (1870), and App. p. 22 (1872), and 
Proce. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 511, pl. xxix. : 
Euchelymys spinosa, Gray, Ann. § Mag. N. H. (5) viii. p. 118 
(1871). 
Elseya spinosa, Gray, App. p. 23. 
Carapace very much depressed, keeled in the young, with a more 
or less distinct vertebral groove in the adult; posterior margin 
more or less strongly serrated; nuchal shield normally absent ; 
dorsal shields slightly rugose. Plastron moderately large, front 
lobe rounded, hind lobe angularly notched; the width of the bridge 
is contained three and a half to four times in the length of the 
plastron ; intergular shield much larger than the gulars, once and 
two thirds to twice as long as broad; suture between the anals 
much longer than that between the abdominals. Head large, with 
the skin closely adhering to the skull; snout very prominent; 
interorbital space concave in the adult; chin with a pair of well- 
developed conical dermal appendages ; upper surface of neck with 
large, erect, conical tubercles. Brown above; lower surface of 
shell yellow or brownish; a whitish band may be present along 
each side of the neck. 
Length of shell 24 centim. 
Queensland. 
a-b, Heyr., spir. Cape York. Museum Godeffroy. 
c. df, spir. Gayndah. Museum Godeffroy. 
d. Ugr., stffd. Burnett River. G. Krefft, Esq. | P.]. 
e. Her., spir. Burnett River. G. Krefft, Esq. | P. |. 
J. 2} stfid. Queensland. G. Krefft, Esq. | P.]. 
Ga Qe suid Australia. (‘Lype.) 
h. 3, spi. Australia. G. Krefft, Esq. [P.]. 
(Type of LE. spinosa.) 
a. Ye., skel, Australia. 
7. Emydura nove-guinee. 
Platemys novee-guinese, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 128. 
Emydura novee-guinese, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) vi. p. 450 
(1888). 
Closely allied to the preceding, but nuchal shield well developed 
and plastron smaller, with narrower front lobe; the width of the 
bridge is contained thrice and one fourth in the length of the 
plastron ; intergular shield very narrow, thrice as long as broad, 
much smaller than the gulars. Shell and soft parts brown above 
and yellowish inferiorly ; a small blackish spot on each vertebral 
and costal shield. 
New Guinea. 
